St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-20
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THAT CONFEDERATE RUBBISH

The military veteran who conducts
the war department of that journal of
doubtful politics, the Pioneer Press, is
offended because the GLOBE called rebel
battle flags ''old rubbish In its yes
terday's issue that paper works itself
= up into an apparent state of wrathful
indignation because the GLOBE further
suggested that this old rubbish should
be piled together and burned. Like
good many others of its class, who never
caught the war fever until after the war
was al over, and who never exhibit bel
Hgerent traits until first assured that no
gunpowder is to be burned, our Third
street contemporary puts on it's war
paint and starts out on crusade of
its own to crush the incipient
rebellion which, in its feverish
imagination, it discovers to exist in the
Democratic administration at Washing
ton. 1t is an open secret that the Third
street organ is committed to JOHN
SHERNAN's candidacy, and conse-
quently is hallucinated with the idea
that 10y atty to its candidate prescribes
the waving of the bloody shirt to be a
more sacred obligation than having
family prayers. If the rebel battle-fiags.
which are rotting away in the mouldy
cellars of the old war building at Wash
ingtOn, are not rubbish what are they?
They are as useless as Confederate
money. They represent nothing Oh
Gods earth now. These tattered rags,
at best, are only the mementOes of the
in 1ati
page which every patriot would
have obliterated if it could be done.
The soldiers who won the Union battles
do not need these moulded and moth
eaten rags as trophies of their victories.
They have trophy of their achieve
ments in a re1eStabliShed and indissolu-
BILE union of the American states, which
Is more enduring and of more value
than all the flags that were ever cap
tured in all the battles of the worlds
history. There is no danger that the
yalOr and patriotic services of the Union
soldiers will ever be forgotten. The
record of their achievements is written
i'll their country's history and will be
perpetuated as long as the nation ex-
lists. The only danger that menaces our
national life is from the efforts of that
class of seditiOus citizens who are con-
stantly tanning the fires of sec
tional strife in order to gain
some party advantage. If all the
use that can be found for the
old Confederate rubbish which is stored
away in the cellars of the war depart
ment is to bring it out every four years
to revive the memories of our unfortu-
nate civil strife, then the GLOBE sticks
to its original proposition that bonfire
should be made of the whole pile of
trash.
Almost every nation on earth has its
civil wars, and yet in none of them to-
day can be found a vestige of internal
diSSension except in our own. 1t is time
that all traces of it here were wiped out.
The GLOBE does not subscribe to that
gospel of hate which has just begun to
be preached again by leading Republi-
can politicians. 1t believes that the
bloody shirt has gone out of fashion. II
Is because the Democratic party is ma
tional party, which knows no North nor
South, nor East nor West, that it de-
Sires to see the last ray of sectional
feeling eXtinguished. Itprefers to give
a stimulus to patriotic union rather
than to sectional discord. And palsied
be the tongue that utters contrary
sentiment.